Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?

[Simon Moon]

3. I understand your point about evidence. However the point is testimony is the only type of information conveyed to us about historical events. To dismiss it entirely is not a tenable solution because you would have toss out billions of things we believe to be true about history. If you are going the route of the testimony of the NT contains miracles and is therefore an exception, then you are begging the question. For those following along, it would be question begging because you would be saying the testimony of miracles is not true because miracles can't happen--setting up a circular argument that never allows for the possibility of a miracle. 

Ah, so you are clueless about the historical method too. Thanks for clarifying your ignorance.

For a large majority of people that are considered historical, we have things like: texts penned by them, texts penned by their enemies, coins with their images, towns named after them, contemporaneous historians reporting about them, etc.

Anything like that for your god boy?

4. The people of the NT claim they verified the miracles. I choose (because of a cumulative case for Christianity) to take them at their word. I don't think believing those that claimed to have verified is unreasonable--especially since there is no evidence to weigh against them.

How do you know that the stories in the Bible of the people verifying miracles, are accurate? After all, they weren't written for a generation or more after the alleged events, by unknown authors.

There are 1000's of people alive today, that sincerely believe they were abducted by aliens. You can personally interview them. They are not reporting hearsay.

Do you believe they were actually abducted by aliens? I'm not saying they are lying, only that they may be misinterpreting some other experience.